Means for securing shoe heels



Dec. 19, 1922. 1,439,301.

r s. ELFMAN.

MEANS FOR SECURING SHOE HEELS.

FILED JUNE 11. I921.

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Patented Dec. 1 9, 1922.

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MEANS FOR snourerns srron HEELS.

Application filed June 11,

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I lVhile my invention maybe used generally in fastening heels to shoes, it is particularly adapted for use in connection with the high heels on womens shoes;

In the drawing of one embodiment of my invention selected for illustration and description herein,

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a shoe partly broken away with my novel heel locking member thereon;

Fig. 2, a bottom face view of the device onthe heel seat of a shoe and ready to re ceive the heel;

Fig. 3, a top face view of the device; and

Fig. 4, an end view thereof with a heel partly broken away in position to be seated therein.

Referring first to Figs. 2 and 3, my novel locking member is shown as a flat strip 1, with an inturned edge or flange 2 of suitable width and forming between the strip and flange a channel 3 of convenient width.

The strip may be fashionedof any desired material as aluminum to the outline of the top of the heel seat a of the shoe, and fastened thereto by tacks or other suitable mem bers 5.

The heel edge 6,.Fig. 3, is thensprung within and beneath the flange 2 and secured therein by pressing the flange 2 closely againstthe heel edgelby means of a screw driver or any suitable tool. While the strip 1 as described, will firmly lock the heel to the shoe, it may, if desired, be still further secured by nails or-tacks 7 Fig. 1, dotted lines, driven downwardly through the heel seat into the heel.

now so much in vogue for womens shoes,

1921. Seria1No.476,923.

presents perhaps the most difficult problem in the shoe making art.

At the present time the heel issecured to the heelseat by glue andtacks as at 7, Fig. 1. After it is glued, it must be clamped to the shoe for several hours for the glue to harden. There are very serious objections to this method. The glue almost invariably gives way at an early date in well made shoes, and at once in cheap shoes, and necessitates expensive repairs.

It takes from ten to twelve hours actua time, and thatmeans a working day, for the glue to dry, thus retarding seriously the .output of the factory. The tacks 7 must be driven into the heel over the shank in order to avoid splitting the heel, which would occur if the tacks were driven near the back edge of the heel. A

Again, in the cheaper shoes the heel seat is made of such poor material that itgives way readily so that the tacks therethrough do not hold. I I

In using myimproved device, the edge 8 of the heel seat 4 is trimmed back somewhat from the edge of the counter or side of the shoe so that the strip. 1 may lie close to the heel seat and overlie a little of the edge of the same It is firmly held. in place by the tacks 5 and a new heel may at any time be substituted for the old one by lifting the flange 2 sufliciently to release the old heel and insert the new. i I I The edge of the strip 1 on the shoe oflers an attractive novel feature in appearance and will not tarnish if made of aluminum or some other materials, althoughit may, of course, be enameled any color if desired. While the locking device willpreferably be made in different sizes, the strip 1. may be i sprung somewhatlaterally very easily and thus one size of the locking device may be used 1n heel seats v'arylng somewhat in size.

My invention is not limited in all details to the precise embodiment described and i1- lustrated herein, but may be varied within the spirit of the invention and scope of the appended claims. I

l. A lockingmember-for securing a detachable heel to the heel seat of a shoe sole, comprising a' flexible metal strip adapted to be secured around the edge of the'heel seat, and a dowmmrdly extenderl fiange thereon, edapte lto engage the outer side, edge 01? he heel and to be bent inwardly ageinst the same to lock itto the shoe leaving the outer shoe sole uninterrnpiecl in length.

2. A heel locking member comprising a heel sllapeclstrip flexible eclgewise to the desired size and adapted to be countersunk in v 10 the heel seat of the sole, and secured toand about the outer edge of the heel seat the shoe, the strip having a raised flange to receive the heel top edge and constructed and arranged to be turned down against and about the outer edge of the heel to secure the same to the strip and heel seat of the sole,

leaving the heel seat of the outer sole uninterrupted in length.

SAMUEL ELFMAN. 

